“You can’t even compare that gym to our gym, bro. We’re an established MMA gym and a judo gym for over 20 years. [Glendale Fighting Club] is a college gym that became an MMA gym somehow because Roman Mitichyan, one of our guys, one of my best training partners and friends, was taking judo over...

“Obviously I was hoping to not fight him, as well, I respect him. He’s a wrestler and he represents the sport really well and I’m a fan of his. It’s never somebody that you want to beat up in that way, but, we both have the same goals and sometimes we have to compete against...

On his official Instagram, UFC commentator, Joe Rogan walked us through the process of Regenokine. Check it: “Here’s a picture of me with the regenokine needles in my back. Regenokine is a blood spinning procedure where they take your blood out, heat it in a special process and spin it in a centerfuge and extract...

Yesterday in Las Vegas, 36 women tried out for the first ever all-female season of ‘The Ultimate Fighter’. TUF 20 will featured 115lb women in an elimination tournament that will crown the first ever strawweight UFC champion. The season will be coached by Anthony Pettis and Gilbert Melendez. Dana White sent out the following footage...

UFC featherweight champion, Jose Aldo is a known associate of UFC 172 title challenger, Glover Teixeira. That affiliation is likely the reason the Brazilian champ sent out a nasty little re-tweet about Jon Jones during Saturday’s main event. Check it: The tweet, which shows up clearly on his timeline translates to, “Jones is an exceptional...

UFC light-heavyweight champion, Jon Jones isn’t afraid to gloat in public, at least when it comes to his new-found rival in Chuck ‘The Iceman’ Liddell. Chuck went on a brief anti-Jones stint in the lead up of UFC 172. His longtime training partner, Glover Teixeira, the likely motivator for his pre-fight words. The champ took...

UFC featherweight fighter, Manny Gamburyan has a great relationship with UFC bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey. His cousin though, Bellator’s Karo Parisyan, paints an odd picture of their relationship, in what is likely to go down as a slightly controversial interview with MMAJunkie.com. It’s obviously all for show, but why Karo? Why? His words: “Why is...

Not only did Joseph Benavidez take home, a fat, $50k bonus for his submission victory over Tim Elliot, he also gets a brand new Motorcycle. As part of a contest sponsored by Harley Davidson, fans voted on one of four ‘Performance of the Night’ winners to walk away with a new bike. Here’s Benavidez, announcing...

Travis Browne has been pretty quiet since his lopsided defeat against Fabricio Werdum. (Replay Here) The UFC on FOX 11 main event put the winner into a title shot, against UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez, and Travis failed to perform. In a recent posting to his instagram, Browne finally broke his silence: “Thank you guys...

Prior to Saturday Night, Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson was the UFC’s fifteenth ranked light-heavyweight fighter. And at the time that was generous. Considering, the former welterweight had yet to fight in the UFC’s 205 pound division. Fast forward two days beyond his upset victory over Phil Davis, and, Johnson now finds himself inside the UFC’s top...

After successfully dispatching Jessamyn Duke at last weekend’s UFC 172 event, undefeated bantamweight prospect, Bethe Correia has a message for Ronda Rousey’s crew, ‘The Four Horsewomen’ (pictured) . “They were tweeting and provoking me all the time. One of them is called a ‘weapon’ in Brazil — the way we translate it — and I...

Saturday we heard from former UFC champion Vitor Belfort, and he told us he was ready to fight and finally clean of TRT. “I did all the tests that Nevada requires,” Belfort said. Now, during his UFC 172 post-fight scrum, Dana White addressed Vitor’s statements, and he isn’t too impressed. Check it: “He’s gotta solve...

“Gustafsson gets the next fight against Jones. We gotta see how that plays out. I don’t know, physically, how Jones is right now. We’ve got to take the fight wherever the fight is going to do the best. This thing could do 50 or 60,000 seats or more. If we go to Europe to do...

‘The Huntington Beach Bad Boy’ never thought his feud with Dana White would lead to this. A removal from the UFC record books. During Saturday’s UFC 172 broadcast, the production crew threw up an info graph (above) about the most successful light-heavyweights in the promotion’s history. Tito Ortiz, who claims to hold 15 wins in...

“Probably my next fight will be the one in Japan in September. I’ll grab a glass of beer once and then get back to training camp. Every day I’m thinking about retirement, but I know there’s going to be fun out there waiting for me to fight, so I’m still fighting. If I get a...

“I have a ton of respect for him [Jon Jones]. He is the champ, but I also know that I have to put in the work to be a real contender. Just because I have this win tonight doesn’t make me, in my opinion, a contender. So I am just taking it one fight at...

Early in the first round of the UFC 172 main event, Jon Jones used an old wrestling trick in the clinch that cranks the arms of his challenger, and apparently sent him on a downward spiral. Glover’s longtime coach, John Hackleman explains: “I’ve never seen Glover lose a fight like this. I’ve never seen Glover...

“It was just great to have the crowd on my side again. It has been a long time, since I’ve had cheers. I figured it would be that way so I said let me really embrace this, let me really give this audience some entertainment. So it was just great. I was living it up....

Whether you love him or hate him, Jon Jones is one-of-a-kind in the world of mixed martial arts. But he was almost two of a kind, back in 2011. The NFL lockout was in full effect, and Jones’ older brother Arthur decided that he would give another sport a try while he was in athletic purgatory....

After Luke Rockhold’s utter domination of Tim Boetsch, he asked for a rematch against Vitor Belfort. In the same breath, he said that he also wouldn’t mind a fight against Michael Bisping. Bisping took to twitter with the following: So @LukeRockhold called me out. I'm more than happy to oblige. At least he will fight...

It’s hard to argue against Jon Jones’ claim as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. Even I can admit to being turned, seemingly overnight, into a ‘Bones’ fan and advocate. He’s pretty good guys. More impressive than his dominant title reign, is how he continues to break records, defy odds, and cement himself as...

UFC 172 main event participant, Glover Teixeira tasted defeat last Saturday for the first time since 2005. The former number one contender in the UFC’s light-heavyweight division was cleanly dominated by, the champ, Jon Jones over the course of five-straight rounds. In a recent posting to his Instagram, Teixeira sent the following update to his...

Following his impressive UFC 172 victory over, Team Alpha Male’s Andre Fili, Max Holloway told Joe Rogan that his coach promised him a barrel full of Krispy Kreme donuts if he won via submission. And, as the picture shows, he got his due. Holloway earned a third round submission victory in, last Saturday’s, UFC 172...

Last Saturday in the UFC 172 main event, Jon Jones proved why he is one of the most feared men in Mixed Martial Arts. With his dominant win, UFC President Dana White is calling him the new pound-for-pound king and his fighting peers, aren’t arguing. Here’s the post-fight reactions: Haha never in my life would...

UFC 172 was the UFC’s only pay-per-view offering this month and it delivered. In the evening’s co-main event, Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson shocked the world by completely dominating, top UFC light-heavyweight contender, Phil Davis. After the fight, many took to twitter with their reactions. Check it: Anthony Johnson is a problem at this weight class wow....

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